Tag \Tag\, n. [Probably akin to tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg a prickle, point, tooth.]

1. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.

3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.

4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.]

Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. --Holinshed.

5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.]

--Halliwell.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Tag \Tag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Tagging.]

1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.

He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. --Macaulay.

His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word. --Dryden.

2. To join; to fasten; to attach. --Bolingbroke.

3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Tag \Tag\, v. i. To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Tag \Tag\, n. [From Tag, v.; cf. Tag, an end.]

A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)